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• ... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  War, Patriotic, Parent

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.6, University of Virginia Press

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• A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.

  Louis Sabin

  Friendship, Dog, Smart

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• Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

  George Edward Moore

  Cities, Taverns, Noble

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• When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Endless, Acquaintance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.309, Penguin

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• Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

  Rene Thom

  Weak, Structure, Algebra

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• This Osama bin Laden guy, spoiled rich kid worth $300M. I have three words for this guy: Anna Nicole Smith. We send her over there, she'll get his money, he'll be dead in a week.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Guy, Three

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• there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.

  Rolf Potts

  Insanity, World, Social

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Income, May, Politician

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.332, Hoover Press

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• I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Careers, America

  Cowboys & Indians magazine, September 2004.

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• Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

  Mike Nichols

  Girl, Athletic, Handsome

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• Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.

  Grant Cardone

  Class, Ideas, People

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• But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony,
  and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever
  their continent, their class, their color.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Mean, Dark

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Strive, Thee, Command

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• He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

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• Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Men, Wild Places, People

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• Sombre and rich, the skies;
  Great glooms, and starry plains.
  Gently the night wind sighs;
  Else a vast silence reigns.

  Lionel Johnson

  Night, Wind, Sky

  Lionel Pigot Johnson, “By The Statue Of King Charles At Charing Cross”

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• Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Intelligent, Waiting

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• Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs can mutually threaten each other. In the light of Christ's words (Mt. 25), this poor South will judge the rich North. And the poor people and poor nations-poor in different ways, not only lacking food, but also deprived of freedom and other human right-will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialist monopoly and political supremacy at the expense of others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Judging, People

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• I am the rich man's guru.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Guru, Rich Man

  "The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press". Book by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 1986.

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• People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

  Ben Stein

  People, Exception, Free Society

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• I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

  Sam Walton

  Hate, Fall, Use

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.98, Bantam

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• With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.

  Bob Shacochis

  Blood, Sweat, Iron

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• The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Real, Humble

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• I don't know your story or your dreams or the things that steal your sleep, but I know they matter. I hope you story is rich with characters, rich with friends and conversation. I hope you know some people who carry you, and I hope you have the honor of carrying them. I hope that there's beauty in your memories, and I hope it doesn't haunt you. And if it does, then I hope there is someone who will walk you through the night and remind you of the promise of the sunrise, that beauty keeps coming, that there are futures worth waiting and fighting for, and that you were made to dream.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Dream, Memories, Character

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• Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth-or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them.

  Kenneth Cloke

  Inspiration, Choices, Growth

  Kenneth Cloke, Joan Goldsmith (2001). “Resolving conflicts at work: a complete guide for everyone on the job”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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